Campus Election Engagement Project(CEEP)is a national nonpartisan project that helps America's colleges and universities motivate their 20 million students to register, volunteer in campaigns, educate themselves, and turn out at the polls. We focus on how administrators, faculty, staff, and student leaders can help engage students in democracy. We worked with 300 campuses in 2016 and are now engaging schools for the 2017-2018 elections.

We've taken the mystery out of getting your nonpartisan campus engagement efforts started with our easy-to-follow and newly updated Seven Key Ways to Act. This roadmap to fully engaging your campus includes contributions from organizers and campus leaders in every state we've worked with since 2008 and has 250+ successful approaches to help you:

Creating a Campus Climate Supporting Political Engagement Lessons from the national NSLVEstudy of student voter participation

How can campuses bolster political learning and engagement during the off-election year? In this interactive webinar series, sponsored by CEEP and Wisconsin Campus Compact, Nancy Thomas, director of the National Study of Voting, Learning, and Engagement (NSLVE) will draw on NSLVE's data to explore how institutions can support student political engagement to foster greater electoral participation. Thomas will explore how schools can help students of all political perspectives engage in the electoral process, like voting, campaigning, and running for office, in individual and collective engagement around public problems, from community organizing to speaking on key public issues, and in convening political dialogue in ways that promote civility and respect. Participating Campuses will join monthly webinars and group feedback sessions to assess their institution’s campus climate, conduct abbreviated self-assessments, and create campus-specific plans to facilitate broader engagement.

Please click here to listen to the initial webinar and hereto see additional scheduled sessions . We're still encouraging schools to sign on, even if they missed the initial session, so please fill out this formif interested.

NONPARTISAN CANDIDATE GUIDES

2016 Presidential Candidate Guide

Because busy students find it a challenge to sort through conflicting candidate claims, we create nonpartisan candidate guides to offer a clear and concise resource to sort through where candidates stand on the issues. They've gotten sterling responses from faculty, administrators, and students, all of whom have said they're exceptionally useful. In 2016 we created nonpartisan guides to the Presidential candidates, to the impact of this election on the Supreme Court, and selected Senate and Governor's races. In 2017, we've also begun to create nonpartisan guides to issues like the Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination and the President's proposed budget.

​Looking for tips, toolkits, or examples of how to plan voter engagement activities for your campus?

Visit our new and updated resources on the CEEP Resources page. Whether you've been developing a voter engagement plan for your campus for years or are just getting started, you'll find useful guides on how to engage students on your campus, how to set up successful campus + community partnerships, how to work with faculty or your student newspaper, and more!

ELECTORAL ENGAGEMENT SELF ASSESSMENT

The tool is meant to serve as a starting point for faculty, staff, and students to develop a strategic plan to enhance student engagement in elections at all levels. It looks at four aspects of electoral engagement on college campuses: campus commitment, student voter registration, student education on candidates and electoral issues, and mobilizing students to vote.